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Employee motivation

In motivating the employees, job enrichment and job sharing are the most suitable reward techniques that I would prefer. Job enrichment is suitable because it enhances an employee to maximize their skills and expertise through allocation of variety of tasks at the workplace. This is a perfect motivation technique because apart from reducing chances of boredom and that could result low job productivity, the technique also provides the employee with the opportunity to maximize their abilities and also develop new skills. In addition, job enrichment makes the work more interesting as the employee is looking forward to learning new skills during working time. Job sharing on the other hand is a suitable motivational technique as it enables an employee to share their job responsibilities with another person thus creating more time for their personal activities. It involves coming up with a planned work shifts whereby two different employees fill out for one another. The method not only reduces issues related with fatigue that could lower motivation but also enables the employees to have more time for their personal tasks thus reducing conflicts and stressors involved with lack of adequate personal time.

In certain circumstances this motivational combination may be hard to implement. Such cases include a scenario where there is a high expectation of task accountability. Job sharing for instance may lack accountability if the involved employees make a mistake of fail to sign a record book once their shift is complete. This may result to irregularities and low work productivity hence becoming a disadvantage to the employer. Both techniques may also become impossible to administer in an autocratic led organizations such as the military whereby a person is supposed to stick to the task assigned to them.